YOU WON'T BELIEVE: What the rich pay in CoMo/Boone County property taxes
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133 acre Kroenke parcel. 2015 tax: $346.81I pay higher taxes on my 21-year-old truckCOLUMBIA, Mo 4/4/16 (Feature) -- "Let me tell you about the very rich," the writer F. Scott Fitzgerald said. "They are different from you and me."
They sure are. For one thing, the rich pay a helluva lot less property taxes than you I do in Columbia and Boone County. If you approve the largest property tax hike in decades Tuesday, the rich will still pay a whole lot less than you and I.
Pictured above is 133 acres billionaire Wal-Mart heirs Stan and Ann Kroenke paid $1.9 million for nearly two decades ago. It's across from Mill Creek Elementary School and their estate on Nifong in Columbia. It's stubbed in for development -- sewer, cable, gas, water, power. It is assessed for $5,336. In 2015, the Kroenkes paid $347 in Boone County property taxes on it. (Click pic for larger).
We collected 23 property tax bills for some of Boone County's richest, most prominent citizens, many of them developers. I pay more property tax for my beater pickup truck than 14 of these wealthy landowners pay for acres and acres of prime land in and around Columbia.
Click the links to read the bills, the location of each parcel, and other details.
Stan and Ann Kroenke
Billionaire Wal-Mart Heirs
133 acres
Assessed value: $5,336
2015 Property Tax: $346.81
Stan and Ann Kroenke
8 acres
Assessed value: $4,560
Robert Lemone Trust
Robert Lemone Trust
Robert Lemone Trust
Robert Lemone Trust
Bill and Nancy Laurie
Crown Center Farm
Jeffrey E. Smith
Now look to see what you pay for your cars. Or land. Or house. Or business.
Think about that when you go to the polls Tuesday.
They sure are. For one thing, the rich pay a helluva lot less property taxes than you I do in Columbia and Boone County. If you approve the largest property tax hike in decades Tuesday, the rich will still pay a whole lot less than you and I.
Pictured above is 133 acres billionaire Wal-Mart heirs Stan and Ann Kroenke paid $1.9 million for nearly two decades ago. It's across from Mill Creek Elementary School and their estate on Nifong in Columbia. It's stubbed in for development -- sewer, cable, gas, water, power. It is assessed for $5,336. In 2015, the Kroenkes paid $347 in Boone County property taxes on it. (Click pic for larger).
We collected 23 property tax bills for some of Boone County's richest, most prominent citizens, many of them developers. I pay more property tax for my beater pickup truck than 14 of these wealthy landowners pay for acres and acres of prime land in and around Columbia.
Click the links to read the bills, the location of each parcel, and other details.
Stan and Ann Kroenke
Billionaire Wal-Mart Heirs
133 acres
Assessed value: $5,336
2015 Property Tax: $346.81
(parcel pictured above; click pic for larger)
Stan and Ann Kroenke
3.04 acres
Assessed value: $380
3.04 acres
Assessed value: $380
Stan and Ann Kroenke
8 acres
Assessed value: $4,560
2015 Property Tax: $296.37
Stan and Ann Kroenke
131 ft × 125 ft lot in Woodrail Subdivision
Assessed value: $817
Stan and Ann Kroenke
131 ft × 125 ft lot in Woodrail Subdivision
Assessed value: $817
AON and RCG Investments, LLC
Developers
5.87 acres
Assessed value: $381
2015 Property Tax: $24.76
Developers
5.87 acres
Assessed value: $381
2015 Property Tax: $24.76
Elvin E. Sapp
Developer
4.42 acres
Developer
4.42 acres
Assessed value: $91
Elvin E. Sapp
2 acres w/barn
2 acres w/barn
Assessed value: $1,172
St. Charles Road Development, LLC
2.36 acres
Assessed value: $174
2014 Property Tax: $12.16
(On its 128 subdivision acres near Battle High, this developer paid
$497.00 in 2013 property taxes and $510 in 2014 property taxes.
Their 2015 tax bills presently read "0".)
(On its 128 subdivision acres near Battle High, this developer paid
$497.00 in 2013 property taxes and $510 in 2014 property taxes.
Their 2015 tax bills presently read "0".)
Robert Lemone Trust
Developer
Developer
8.95 acres
Assessed value: $414
Robert Lemone Trust
3 acres
Assessed value: $139
Robert Lemone Trust
12.96 acres
Assessed value: $598
Robert Lemone Trust
2.43 acres
Assessed value: $112
Robert Lemone Trust
2.13 acres
2.13 acres
Assessed value: $96
Robert Lemone Trust
1.81 acres
Assessed value: $84
Bill and Nancy Laurie
Crown Center Farm
Billionaire Wal-Mart Heirs
Crown Center Farm
Billionaire Wal-Mart Heirs
14.9 acres
Assessed value: $1,110
Bill and Nancy Laurie
Crown Center Farm
13.2 acres
Assessed value: $266
Hank Waters
Newspaper owner
20.58 acres
Newspaper owner
20.58 acres
Assessed value: $361
Hank Waters
26 acres
26 acres
Assessed value: $973
The Kroenke Group (TKG)
Developer
77 acres
Developer
77 acres
Assessed value: $1,504
The Kroenke Group (TKG)
133 × 95 ft lot on N. Fairview Rd.
Assessed value: $260
Jeffrey E. Smith
Developer
13.9 acres
Developer
13.9 acres
Assessed value: $289
Jeffrey E. Smith
16.6 acres
16.6 acres
Assessed value: $607
Jeffrey E. Smith
7.22 acres
Assessed value: $243
Michael J. Martin
1995 Ford F 150 Pickup Truck (with body rust)
1995 Ford F 150 Pickup Truck (with body rust)
Assessed value: $575
Now look to see what you pay for your cars. Or land. Or house. Or business.
Think about that when you go to the polls Tuesday.
